On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child. And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.” Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”(Luke 9:37-41 ESV)
The three apostles who witnessed the transfiguration were still in awe coming down from that mountaintop experience. They must have felt on top of the world spiritually. But here was one whom they had not been able to heal. How piercing those words were and are: "but they could not..." What a challenge to our faith. What do we fail to do because our picture of Christ is too small?
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